Guild Wars 2

bOgz.7263:

spot on

been doing this to level alts while watching a movie, large/multiple monitor helps

So why bother “playing” the game if you have no interesst in playing it?

Ken.8965:

kokiman.2364:

Yes                           

Any sources?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

Yes                           

thefantasticg.3984:

kokiman.2364:

thefantasticg.3984:

Uh, it’s pretty simple: money. And being one of the better time efficient ways of making said money… especially if you have awesome RNG.

But they are not effective at all. The reason people do it is, because it is something which rewards you for being braindead.

Yeah. It is effective despite your wanting it not to be, if there was something that was more effective people would be doing that en masse then.. As a matter of fact is was so effective Anet nerfed the amount of coin you got from Champ bags at one point. It is less effective now than it was before that nerf but it is still really effective. Champ train along with some quick dungeon runs is the best way to go about getting coin, IMO. A few hours = at least 10g. Especially if I get some some good drops.

Or you could do all AC paths in 45mins and get 4.5g guaranteed gold + loot.

Pretty much every dungeon path is more effective BUT you can’t do all of them while being braindead.

Fafnir.5124:

Artillery from a distance. Large targets no reason to stack. Why not approach it from the air seems to have no anti air defenses.

Reff:
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/gate_jietai_kare_no_chi_nite_kaku_tatakeri/c029/17.html

How to use modern warfare in a fantasy environment

Not only is the link nsfw but also extremely racist.

thefantasticg.3984:

Uh, it’s pretty simple: money. And being one of the better time efficient ways of making said money… especially if you have awesome RNG.

But they are not effective at all. The reason people do it is, because it is something which rewards you for being braindead.

webtoehobbit.4201:

Hey, ANet has been detailing to specific people from various game magazines, and gaming sites about what is going to happen in the next few updates, and the general consensus is that there is reason to be hyped. This finale will very much change Tyria in a big way. I am so excited :-D

They don’t release the finale today. We are are talking about the patch that is coming later this day.

Cassocaster.4576:

Weapon kills and slayer titles are easy enough to get though I want to know who actually dealt 5K killing blows with a focus or torch…..

I did

http://i.imgur.com/pOMxKxf.jpg

- AC reworked
- Twilight Arbor got a new challenging path
- bi-weekly updates
- LFG Tool
- you can earn gold and turn your glory into gold/levels/etc in sPvP now
- ascended gear was introduced, which is stronger than exotic gear but on the same level as legendaries
- they introduced some new stat combinations
- they changed the borderland maps in WvW, introduced a separate ranking system in WvW
- reworked the world bosses (especially tequatl which is now a really hard encounter)
- introduced champion bags (every champion in the game drops those bags that contain crafting materials, greens/blues or even special skins)
- …

Ryze.2891:

Hi i was away when the thesse cool toxic skins came out the mask one and the shoulders, i just found out. is there any way to get them? have arenaetnet still not think about players who might miss those?
I hate it that they have their stupid limited policy and i think they lose more money by doing that.

No there is no way to get them right now but you should keep an eye out on new gemstore promotions, they may sell them again for a short amount of time.

Nope no chance. You have to wait another 7 months, until they open the pavilion again.

CharrGirl.7896:

Well, the most logical thing would be to cut the chains it holds it, maybe freeze its feet so it can’t move, or even better freeze the ground beneath its giant high heels and watch the fun :P

But Charr should totally bring their tanks and just nuke the kitten out of it. I mean they have a bunch of those lying around in Black Citadel might as well use em no?

I have another idea, instead of cutting the chains (which will not happen, I think) we can climb the chains and enter that flying thing!

Mortifer.2946:

Please, give us a precursor building option :’(

This is the only thing that bothers me.
The precursor “hunt” will be part of the big feature update, that’s for sure, but they surely will not release the precursor hunt together with the new legendary weapon set. Which means that we will have to wait for the feature bundle after that to either get the new legendary weapon set or the legendary trinkets which means that we won’t see legendary armor this year ;_;.

Doggie.3184:

Just need to cut the wires.

This.       

Don’t advertise your guild at all. Play lots of dungeons via the lfg tool, if you had a good group ask them if they want to join your guild. If they are playing decent, you can be sure that they at least spent some time in the game and keep playing the game for while.

Ele with Scepter/Dagger/Focus in PvE and with Staff in WvW.

A DPS Guardian (Sword/Focus, Greatsword) can be fun aswell especially when you are running dungeons.

Running is not a really helpful advice in fact I would never encourage you to run away. Those groups can be quiet challenging which is something you rarely find in the game or at least in the open world. Most of the time it is extremely helpful to start the fight with stability and to deal a lot of AoE damage.

I’d start with the achievements from the following categories:
Hero
Tradesman
Jumping Puzzle
Explorer

Besides that you should try to get as many achievements from the current Living Story, at least enough to get the meta achievement.

As a conclusion of the story it looks like it will make sense at all, again. Lots of questions that will be left unanswered.

Erukk.1408:

They’re talking about something different. We’ll be getting the regular LS updates like we have been for the past year, but they will combining and spacing out the the feature patches into larger updates throughout the year.

You make it sound like we will be getting multiple feature bundles this year but i really doubt that. The first one will be released between march and june/july. This means that they worked on it for about 1/2 year. The feature bundle after that surely will be released at the end of the year.
I am pretty excited to see what we are going to get, the wording in the interviews was, as always, vague.

Xfile.3598:

Maingear Shift. Tri SLI 780ti’s (3), Intel i7 3.6ghz liquid cooled Processor. Asus Essence sound. In game settings set at max. Please note frame-rates are reduced by at least half when uploading to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6xFO-viZY

>3.6 ghz

There is your problem. Check your CPU load while running around in LA, it’ll be probably at around 100% which means your CPU bottlenecks.

Just because season 1 ends doesn’t mean that we will defeat scarlet at the end of season 1, just sayin.

Sounds like you want to play an offensive guardian. You have to pop your cooldowns at the right time (blocks, blinds maybe even aegis) to migrate damage because of your low health pool, you’ll have (if traited correctly) perm. vigor which gives you lots of dodges. It is pretty fun to play, imo.

As soon as the icewall in p1 is down, grab a bombkit run to the claw and place it between his legs and head, if you did it right you’ll deal 30k damage to him.

LittleLepton.8915:

Kolwin.4950:

LittleLepton.8915:

I want to buy these for my dragon revelry star cakes…, they are so expensive for me to craft

it costs 7 gold 20 silver for 12 hours of your star cakes. the primer is 150 gems which currently is around 14 gold to convert to 150 gems. not worth it

Well, I buy with real money, I wouldn’t convert gold.

Even if it isn’t worth it, I still like the convenience.

What convenience? That you don’t have to click every 30 mins? With the primer every minute you don’t play is wasted food duration.

Sublimatio.6981:

I don’t want surprise. I expected the update details and got disappointed

I expected the finale to explain stuff, but now we are going to get a giant death robot and an UFO.

Deal with it, it’s all I can say.

Spiderwick.1879:

StinVec.3621:

I use the arrow keys to play most games and always have. I just cannot use the wasd keys to play any game. This is generally how I have my keyboard configured, though I have since moved my skills to the 12 buttons on the side of my Razer Naga mouse and use the keypad for other things.

Oh boy, this is worst than the clickers..

Care to explain?

No real answers to anything, sadly.

Also

PvE: Are there any plans to make condition builds more viable in PvE?
”Yes you should see some creatures targeted around weakness to condition in some of the early builds next year.” ~Isaiah Cartwright

2015?

Reminds me about the whole situation when A.Net changed some text about the gemstore back when the game wasn’t released.

Here is the stuff that I came to my mind when I read it

Thump, Thump.
> reference to the thumpers or something big
Time to jump.
>First Aetherblade Dungeon/Jumping Puzzle

Wipe all resistance from your mind
>Eternal Alchemy? Sylvari resistance against dragon corruption ? Shouldn’t be the case considering that LS is not part of the PS

There’s a secret deep below to find
>Molten Alliance
>ED? Shouldn’t be the case considering that LS is not part of the PS
If you’d only seen the things I’ve seen
>Eternal Alchemy/ Mists?

You’d wake up screaming from The Dream
>Sylvari, Caithe

This next part will sting, but it brings me joy
>Hurting her own kind (sylvari)? Hurting/Attacking us?

Sometimes to change you must destroy
>Molten Alliance Dredge Ritual, Tower of Nightmares, Pale Tree Dream of Dreams? Sylvari won’t change unless there is the pale tree
A fire is rising you cannot contain
>Molten Alliance has a new weapon

Tyria will burn, while I remain.
>attacks all over tyria, no more regular invasions? overhauling the old invasion-system?

Corpus Christi.2057:

Sometimes it feels like ANet truly believes that these indeed marvelous graphics will keep the interest of the fanbase forever, and so they release terrible quality-wise fortnightly LS updates.

Are they bragging with those graphics? Never seen them doing that, tbh.

As soon as the botscript is more complex (more than just a-b paths) it takes several weeks longer for them to be banned.

Knighthonor.4061:

Bad move… imo

Why? Wanna know how many threads I’ve had reported because they were clearly suggestions but posted in the wrong subforum (most of the time general discussion)?

It’s a good move, imo but it needs some fine tuning.

That’s impressive

Protoavis.9107:

kokiman.2364:

RedShipRaider.9560:

Romo.3709:

Bloodstone Dust – 1 hour of Champ Farm
Empyreal Fragment – 2-3 hours of Dungeons
Dragonite Ore – Doing every world boss meta possible in 24 hours, yup, you’re still short…

Indeed. And you essentially have to craft Ascended Armor in order to reasonably get 70 Agony Resistance for scale 50 Fractals. I can not bring myself to the mind numbing tedium of grinding world bosses and temple auto attack zergs, which effectively halts my progression in FotM…. This is something that I can not quite figure out.

You need 70 AR for scale 50?

to mitigate the damage

Wiki said you get 1% damage with 70 AR from agony. Shouldn’t 60 AR be enough?

RedShipRaider.9560:

Romo.3709:

Bloodstone Dust – 1 hour of Champ Farm
Empyreal Fragment – 2-3 hours of Dungeons
Dragonite Ore – Doing every world boss meta possible in 24 hours, yup, you’re still short…

Indeed. And you essentially have to craft Ascended Armor in order to reasonably get 70 Agony Resistance for scale 50 Fractals. I can not bring myself to the mind numbing tedium of grinding world bosses and temple auto attack zergs, which effectively halts my progression in FotM…. This is something that I can not quite figure out.

You need 70 AR for scale 50?

Pariah.8506:

The Superior Rune of Health could be afforded by pretty much everyone, not to mention it was only expensive for perfectionism’s sake, 9hp wasn’t going to save your life and the only ones that really needed it were the tanks.

Not sure how everyone could buy a 100k rune back when prophecies came out but hey..

Pariah.8506:

Sorry to tell you that the EotN skills were in fact capped at r5, and the Kurzick-Luxon ones at r6, not to mention anyone that had actively participated in Factions content had r6 way before they came out, as the PvE Kurz / Lux skills came out waay after Factions.

Hm looks like you are right, that update came May 2012 http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates:May_2012
EotN was released 2007 together with the first set of PvE-only skills that indeed scaled up to max. rank.

Pariah.8506:

+30 inscription? 6-4k, depending on how impatient you were. If you are calling ~5k a lot of in game currency in GW1 then I really must ask you if you actually played the game or watched some Let’s Plays of it.

Guess you started to play the game when all expansions were released :S

I just looked up the prices for certain items when the game was around 1 year old, like GW2, 20/20 upgrade went for 40-50k, +30 HP for 30k (for bow, so not the most popular weapon, I guess)

Pariah.8506:

kokiman.2364:

Azure Prower.8701:

kokiman.2364:

Azure Prower.8701:

This has become a Korean grinder. I’m now struggling to log in.

You never played a korean grinder
You never played GW1

Actually yes I have. Your logic is flawed.

So what korean grinder did you play? Because this had to be a really good one, I have yet to see a korea grinder with the same amount of content/voice acting/updates

If you played GW1, why do you complain about grind? This game was grindy as hell. “B-But it was totally optional” No it was not, skills got stronger, you got access to more weapons/armors and good luck having “best in slot” gear with a pvp character back when prophecies was released.

Yeah, GW1 sure was grindy as hell.
Man I remember how people got run to Droknar’s forge for BiS gear, just like that in an instant, that’s grindy, right?
You also seem to remember people playing the game before the rank dependant skills came out, they somehow played it back then, didn’t they?
Oh and FYI by the time you got to the quest where you’d acquire a skill you’d already be at least R3, if you explored the area some to unlock the outposts / advance the story more you’d be R4 and those skills were already capped at R5.

Stop trying to be apologetic about this game’s grind by casting a skewered vision on its predecessor.

Yeah the superior Rune of Health was quiet expensive. The r9 15^50 health weapon was pretty easy to obtain from the collector but getting that +30 health was another huge amount of money you had to spend.

SS/LB skills weren’t capped at R5 same goes for Kurzick/Luxon skills and the EotN ones.

Azure Prower.8701:

kokiman.2364:

Azure Prower.8701:

This has become a Korean grinder. I’m now struggling to log in.

You never played a korean grinder
You never played GW1

Actually yes I have. Your logic is flawed.

So what korean grinder did you play? Because this had to be a really good one, I have yet to see a korea grinder with the same amount of content/voice acting/updates

If you played GW1, why do you complain about grind? This game was grindy as hell. “B-But it was totally optional” No it was not, skills got stronger, you got access to more weapons/armors and good luck having “best in slot” gear with a pvp character back when prophecies was released.

Are you talking about T:ESO the game where the elder scrolls are a small objective in PvP which gives you minor statboosts? The game where lore is changed because of transcription errors?

Strong IPs don’t mean anything, look at SWTOR, it failed hard.

I really hope that the fixes for the first legendary weapons will be out. Because I sure don’t want to wait another year for a new set of legendary weapons.

Azure Prower.8701:

This has become a Korean grinder. I’m now struggling to log in.

You never played a korean grinder
You never played GW1
Thanks for letting us know that you quit the game

People just don’t want to socialize anymore in the game. I am pretty sure this has something to do with the huge influx of “casualgamers”, they just want to log in and play, perfect example for that are the frostgorge and queensdale farmtrains. Just read the mapchat once in a while all you’ll find is “Boss X is up” “need help with skillchallenge Y” this is not socializing or being social. I rarely meet people who actually enjoy playing together.

Burnfall.9573:

It’s like being asked how much money you have in your bank; even though it is secured, criminals are very smart, they can find ways to force you to give everything you have.

I’m serious.

Give us some examples. It sounds like you are an expert on this field.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Passion_Fruit

Okay there seems to be a big misunderstanding about what farmers want and what not. 1 . Their farming routine doesn’t have to be very profitable 2. Their farming routine must be simple and repetetive. That’s why the champ-bag farm is so popular. Those people actually love to do boring/simple tasks over and over again (I still don’t understand why they do that), otherwise they would do other stuff that’s more profitable.

Everyone who loves to farm in MMOs should stick to F2P Asia grinders( why pay for a game with a dev behind it who may “nerf” or disencourage farming), because those games actually encourage you do farm all day long and rarely have challenging combat mechanics.

Paul.4081:

kokiman.2364:

Paul.4081:

Fernling.1729:

I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.

Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.

But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.

A blue and bloodstone dust?

By the time they made that challenge we didn’t even have bloodstone dust.

Shakkara.2641:

I think everyone is now longing for a sandbox MMO with ingame editing tools and without any kind of vertical progression, levels, classes and all that bull.

There is one, it’s called second life.

Never going to happen you don’t understand how such complex software works.

8 years later and I still haven’t gotten one :/

Paul.4081:

Fernling.1729:

I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.

Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.

But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.